Verizon says to Netflix: Stop blaming us for bad VideoNEW YORK (AP) — Verizon Communications Inc., the country's fourth-largest home Internet service provider, sent a letter to Netflix Inc. on Thursday, telling it to stop blaming Verizon for bad video quality or face a...

Verizon buys Intel TV UnitVerizon prepares to deliver mobile TV service after buying Intel Media unit LOS ANGELES (AP) — Someday, the full lineup of channels from Verizon's FiOS TV service may be available on your phone. That's the vision...

Verizon & Motorola Make 10'' TabletThe iPad may have another competitor on the horizon. Reuters reports that the Financial Times has found that Motorola and Verizon are collaborating on a 10" slate. The product will come with TV functionality and will...

Fios First To Confirm YES 3D Channel For Yankees GamesVerizon Fios has become the next broadcast TV provider to offer a 3D sports channel, as the first to carry the 3D version of YES, a channel in the New York area that broadcasts all Yankees baseball games.
It will begin...

Verizon Fios Jumps Into 3D With Yankees TelecastsVerizon's fiber-optic TV service is taking the plunge into 3D by being among the first to air Yankees baseball games in 3D when the technology rolls out in July.Earlier this month, YES Network, the exclusive broadcaster...

May 11 2010, 10:32am CDT

Alcatel-Lucent Develops 300 Mbps DSLFIOS is great, but it's pretty much useless if you live in the middle of a city. Copper lines damn us to the hell of...marginally slower Internet. But not for long. Alcatel-Lucent (via MIT Technology Review) has found a...

Apr 22 2010, 10:55am CDT

Verizon Fios Plans Late-Adopting 3D TV ChannelVerizon will be one of the last major satellite/cable providers to offer a dedicated TV channel for 3D content, with its offering slated for launch sometime during the upcoming holiday season.
Cablevision, Cox, Time...

HBO Go Launches For FIOS CustomersAre you a Verizon FIOS customer? If so, you now have access to HBO Go. This is the latest step in cable's “TV Everywhere” plan. Drop by the HBO Go website and you'll be treated to over 600 hours of movies and TV shows,...

Feb 17 2010, 11:11am CST

FiOS Mobile Comes To Verizon DroidsWe can't all be lucky enough to have FiOS. Some of us live in the middle of a city that can't use the service at all right now. We're forced to go through the world, burdened with an Internet connection that can only...

Jan 19 2010, 9:40am CST

Black Friday Bargain Hunting How-To Guide On VideoBlack Friday is on November 27th, the day after Thanksgiving. If you are new to Black Friday deal hunting or want to brush up your skills, here is a Black Friday tutorial video I just stumbled across at Howcast.
The...

Nov 10 2009, 8:58am CST

Verizon Smacktalk's Cablevision's Faster Service.On Tuesday we reported that Cablevision's Optimum Online was now offering the fastest connection speed in the country. For $90 a month you get 101 Mbps down and 15 up, which is half the price and twice the downloading...

Apr 30 2009, 3:00am CDT

FIOS takes it in the face; Optimum is better!Optimum Online, run by Cablevision, is now offering the fastest residential connection speeds in the entire country. While FIOS offers only 50mbps/20mbps, Optimum Online is offering speeds of 101mpbs down and 15 up....

Verizon, Google close to Mobile Search DealThe WSJ reports that Google and Verizon are close to a search deal.
The deal would make Google's search the default on all mobile devices on the Verizon Wireless network.
The deal is not finalized yet, but it seems...

Verizon Gets Michael Bay for new FiOS CommercialsMichael Bay is a Hollywood director most know for the recent hit Transformers as well as older films Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys, and Armageddon. Verizon has teamed up with Bay for new TV commercials to tout Verizon’s FiOS...

Feb 15 2008, 11:15am CST

FiOS TV to get 150 HD Channels in 2008Today Verizon announced plans for a fivefold increase in the number of HD channels, to 150 channels, as well as plans for offering additional HD content through FiOS TV's video-on-demand service.
Verizon is also...

Nov 1 2007, 11:55am CDT

Verizon FiOS TV and Internet ReviewsWe published Verizon FiOS user reviews back in 2005 already when FiOS fiber optics network was only available in in Keller.
2 years later Verizon rolled out FiOS TV and Internet to lots of neighborhoods. At the end...

Jul 12 2007, 10:00am CDT

Column: Pray for VonageDigital Trends' Mark Fleischmann posted an interesting column on Vonage.
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Verizon is trying to use legal maneuvers to put Vonage out of business. In other words, my old phone company is trying to kill my new...

May 17 2007, 4:00am CDT

Verizon FiOS in NumbersThe Verizon PolicyBlog just tipped me about a new post highlighting the latest numbers around Verizon's FiOS broadband service.
At the end of March 2007, Verizon had passed nearly 6.8 million homes and businesses –...

Verizon FiOS Hands-On in New YorkAn editor of PC Magazine got FiOS into his apartment in New York.
He published an overjoyed (understandable!) first-hand report of getting fiber-optics into his home.
Quote from the FiOS first hand report:
"My...